---
type: "Bill"
title: "District Court Elections Nonpartisan."
description: "District Court Elections Nonpartisan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "North Carolina SB 119 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "DISTRICT COURT", "ELECTIONS", "JUDGES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. DALTON", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-02-08"
last_action: "2001-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3653490-e0e5-4ed5-8699-ce3a430ed42d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S119&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "775672686f3491d0f048225f102730a352d638dc9a5a06a8c79cd8369556c369"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 119 (2001) — District Court Elections Nonpartisan.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S119v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S119v2.pdf)
3. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S119v3.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S119v4.pdf)
5. **SL 2001-403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S119v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **32–12** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **54–52** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Martin of Guilford — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Wellons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-09-06** Ch. SL 2001-403 `became-law`
- **2001-09-06** Signed By Gov. 9/6/2001 `executive-signature`
- **2001-08-30** Pres. To Gov. 8/30/2001 `executive-receipt`
- **2001-08-29** Ratified
- **2001-08-29** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-28** Placed On Cal For 8/29/2001
- **2001-08-28** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2001-08-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-08-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-08-22** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-21** Placed On Cal For 8/22/2001
- **2001-08-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-08-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-01** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-01** Rec From Senate
- **2001-02-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-02-21** Placed On Cal For 2/27/2001
- **2001-02-21** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2001-02-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-02-12** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3653490-e0e5-4ed5-8699-ce3a430ed42d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).